Placebo – Five Years (Guitar)

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Chords

There are only a handful of chords in this song, but it's important to get the rhythm & timing right to get an accurate sound. Practise along with the song; it helps! Here's the chords if you need them:
     G         Em        Am        C         D
e|---3---  |---0---  |---0---  |---0---  |---2---
b|---3---  |---0---  |---1---  |---1---  |---3---
g|---0---  |---0---  |---2---  |---0---  |---2---
d|---0---  |---2---  |---2---  |---2---  |---0---
a|---2---  |---2---  |---0---  |---3---  |---0---
e|---3---  |---0---  |---x---  |---x---  |---x---
one thing to note beforehand is that in the song the G & E minor chords are linked by two notes; G & F#. this link should be played as follows:
e|---3-------0---
b|---3-------0---
g|---0-------0---   and so on. this is the case every time these two chords 
d|---0-------2---   are played together. let the G chord ring on as you
a|---2-------2---   fret the two notes, and play them strongly.
e|---3--3-2--0---

G
  pushing through the market square

Em
  so many mothers sighing

Am
  news had just come over, we have

C
  Five years left of crying

G
  news guy wept and told us

          Em
  he said earth, was really dying

Am
  cried so much his face was wet

             C
  then i knew, he was not lying

           G
  i heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies

             Em
  there were boys toys, electric guns and TVs

   C
  my brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare

           Am
  i had to cram so many things to store everything in there

                 C
  and all the fat, skinny people

Am                      C
  and all the tall short, people

Am                      G
  and all the nobody people

C                         D
  and all the somebody people

                                  Am      C
  never thought i'd need, so many people

G
  girl my age went off her head

Em
  hit some tiny children

Am
  and if the black hadn't have pulled her off

          C
  then i think, she would have killed them

G
  soldier with a broken arm

Em
  used to stare into the wheels of a cadillac

Am
  cop knelt to kiss the feet of a priest

         C
  and a queer threw up at the sight of that, well

G
  think i saw you in an ice-cream parlour

Em
  drinking milkshakes cold and long

  Am
  smiling and waving and looking so fine

 C
  don't think you knew you were in this song

  G
  and it was cold, and it rained, so i felt like an actor

  Em
  and i thought of ma, and i wanted to get back there

  Am
  your face, your waist, the way that you talk

 C
  i miss you you're beautiful

G
  we got five years stuck on my eyes

Em
  five years, what a surprise, we got

Am
  five years, my brain hurts alot

C
  five years, that's all we got

G                    (ending chords are Gs)   
  we got, five years